Sunday, May 15, 2011

Frozen (2010)

Some 20-somethings go skiing and get stuck on a lift. They are trapped there for days. How ever will they survive?
The concept was cool, but in order to be a full length film, it has to have a writer who can back it up. Frozen lacked anything even vaguely resembling competant scriptwritng and that combined with mediocre direction left me feeling really disappointed by it.
There was one neat scene where a character gets their hand frozen to the lift rail and then rips their skin off. That was easily the neatest part of the movie, for whatever that's worth.

Hellraiser (1987)

OWNAGE MOVIE
Old house, dead body, puzzle box that is the key to dimensions of unimaginable pleasure and pain, human sacrifice, and torture.
Jesus wept.

Monsters (2010)

A photographer and the heiress he was hired to escort back to America are trapped in Mexico with no passport and no money. And also there are a ton of monsters along the border and its about to be Monster season. They hire on with a group of smugglers, sneaking people across the Contaminated Zone.
It was shot with a barebones crew, on-location non-professional supporting actors/extras, and essentially homemade special effects. Its a gorgeous film with really above average acting, writing, pacing, etc. Its just a really good, really fun movie. I liked it.